Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray, who is seeking his second four-year term in City Hall, will open his campaign office on Saturday. The noon event takes place at 24 E. King St., headquarters for Team Gray.
Democratic congressional candidate Lois Herr will hold a town-hall meeting on health care reform at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Lancaster […]

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H/T PoliticsPA:

Republican Attorney General Tom Corbett will officially declare his candidacy for governor Monday night in Pittsburgh, two independent sources with knowledge of the announcement tell PoliticsPA. Corbett is considered the clear front-runner for the GOP nomination. U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach is the only other Republican candidate to declare.
The attorney general’s candidacy […]

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Never thought you’d see that headline, huh?

From the Toomey for Senate campaign:

 
Toomey Praises Obama’s Inspiring School Speech
Allentown, PA – U.S. Senate candidate Pat Toomey called President Obama’s speech today to school children in Arlington, Virginia “an inspiring and moving speech for students across America.”
“Education is the cornerstone of our country’s future,” Mr. Toomey […]

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The Charlotte Observer recalls:
On Oct. 2, 1991, President Bush spoke to students at Alice Deal Junior High School in the northwest part of the District of Columbia.
The president’s comments sounded a lot like those contained in an advance copy of Obama’s speech.
“When it comes to your own education, what I’m saying is take control,” Bush […]

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And, really, can you blame them?
Here’s the latest Franklin & Marshall Poll, bursting at the seams with loathing for Gov. Ed and the Legislature.

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If you missed our live broadcast of last week’s town hall meeting on health care at Conestoga Valley High School last week, the congressman has posted the footage online.
Here are a few clips:

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From The AP:
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has given $1 million to Franklin & Marshall College, where the new Center for Business, Government & Public Policy will be named after his top deputy, Patricia Harris. Harris, Bloomberg’s longtime friend and adviser, graduated from the Lancaster, Pa., school in 1977.
Here’s a 2005 profile of Harris from The New […]

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In Connecticut, that is. The state budget there is to take effect Sunday because Gov. M. Jodi Rell is reluctantly letting it become law without her signature. According to The AP, Rell criticized the budget as calling for more borrowing and vague plans for future spending. But the governor said she would allow it to […]

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U.S Rep. Joe Pitts sent the following in reference to today’s news that the jobless rate here crept to its highest level in more than 26 years, to 7.4 percent, in July:
“These statistics underscore the seriousness of this recession. I think we all need to keep those who are unemployed in our prayers.
“Unfortunately, the […]

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Republican U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts, who will seek his eighth term in Congress next year, is raising more money than his challenger and has nearly five times as much campaign cash in the bank, finance reports show. But Democrat Lois Herr has raked in twice as much money from individual donors as Pitts, which she […]

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